On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 9:04 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There has been repeated discussion on removing a.out support, the most > recent was[1]. Having read through a bunch of the discussion it looks > like no one has see any reason why we need to keep a.out support. > > The m68k maintainer has even come out in favor of removing a.out > support[2]. > > At a practical level with only two rarely used architectures building > a.out support, it gets increasingly hard to test and to care about. > Which means the code will almost certainly bit-rot. > > Let's see if anyone cares about a.out support on the last two > architectures that build it, by disabling the build of the support in > Kconfig. If anyone cares, this can be easily reverted, and we can then > have a discussion about what it is going to take to support a.out > binaries in the long term. > > Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-m68k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220113160115.5375-1-bp@xxxxxxxxx > [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMuHMdUbTNNr16YY1TFe=-uRLjg6yGzgw_RqtAFpyhnOMM5Pvw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > arch/m68k/Kconfig | 1 - Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
